People started feeling like they were just a bunch of lager louts.
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It can also be sounded remotely to warn off suspected ruffians and louts.
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The television sparkles with images of despicable political louts and sexual harassment reports.
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Geely also gained control of British sports-car maker Louts Cars last year.
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There is a crucial difference, though, between dorm louts and playing-field bullies.
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"He knows only louts will marry a girl without a high school degree nowadays," says Ms Sengupta.
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There was the permission Mr. Trump's victory has given to louts and bullies to push women around.
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But Neanderthals weren't the slow-witted louts we've imagined them to be — not just a bunch of Neanderthals.
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"The Piranhas" recounts the misadventures of a fictional "baby gang", a bunch of unpleasant louts captained by one Nicolas Fiorillo, alias Maraja.
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" Mr. Young's lawyer, John N. Iannuzzi, said his client had left the club peacefully and had encountered a group of "sanctimonious louts.
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But now the city's residents, fed up with freewheeling, drunken louts on their streets, have worked in tandem to pressure the council to act.
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There's still the lads and louts opening the mosh but it's now a minority flanked by an awkward mix of students and young professionals.
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"Throwing rubbish from a vehicle is just as unacceptable as dropping it in the street and we will tackle this antisocial behaviour by hitting litter louts in the pocket."
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Inspired by the Irish playwright John Millington Synge's "Playboy of the Western World," Mr. Brosnan conjures a Bible-thumpin', biker-beatin' hellhole of perverted preachers and leather-vested louts.
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Instead, Rosen is trying to sort out the whims, whines, shouts and pouts of a dozen athletes, some of whom are not loath to turn into louts at the slightest provocation.
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To see how times have changed since the Deltas roamed the screen, take a look at some of their most obvious descendants: the good-hearted louts of the Judd Apatow industrial complex.
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Another exhibit tells of the Jews' Channel in the lagoon, dug so they could remove their dead for burial without crossing the centre of Venice, where louts would stone the waterborne hearses.
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You've always had a lot of lovable louts in your stories and novels, and some of your literary forebearers—guys like Barry Hannah, for instance—could come across as fairly loutish in their work.
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Soccer, at least at the time, was associated with the poor and working class, and particularly with "yob" culture, British slang for unruly, dangerous, drunken louts, and a term often used to deride the poor.
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John Gallagher, the only gentleman in this fraternity of uncouth louts, is immediately drawn to Betty Broadbent, the bright 15-year-old daughter of the woman who manages the hotel where the journalists are camped out.
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In a country where "lager louts" have been known to wreak havoc, civic groups applauded the new measures and health advocates called them a necessary corrective after decades of new research showed that even moderate alcohol consumption was harmful to the health.
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Unfortunately most of them were at school or Snapchatting pictures of their bare arses or whatever teenagers do, so what follows are the louts who were skipping classes on coastal erosion to go shopping (and end up accosted by our camera en route).
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Kaufman wasn't made for movies, but in live shows as well as on "Saturday Night Live" and on talk shows (David Letterman), he continued to test the limits of his singular absurdist comedy by assuming the guise of innocent fools or spectacularly awful louts.
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Grandstanding and gridlock in Washington; right-wing radio louts who thrive on the partisanship this foments; the shrinkage of the media of record—all these institutional failures have contributed to the gradual growth among parts of the electorate of confusion and misinformation that quickly turns to anger.
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Remit goiter gout! Doubtless teared toed alohas will dull gangs' aerials' tails' sluices; Gusset ends! Gawkier halo! Enter abstruse rested loser beer guy louts.
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Brătescu, p.127–128 On 19 March 1881, Românul quoted in full the premier's menacing statements, according to which the Russian refugees were "louts" and "vagabonds" who had overstayed their welcome.Brătescu, p.127 Also targeted by Românul, the Hungarian refugees of Bucharest kept an inventory of its insults.
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The Arriou river rises in the south of the commune and flows north-west parallel to the Louts joining it north of the commune. The Luy de France forms the south-western border of the commune as it flows north-west to eventually join the Luy north of Castel- Sarrazin.
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Ned is a derogatory term applied in Scotland to hooligans, louts or petty criminals.BBC News - Ned arrives - it's official , 12 July 2001, retrieved 8 May 2006BBC News - Neds make it into the dictionary , 9 June 2005, reporting definition in Collins English Dictionary; retrieved 8 May 2006Middle class kids 'attracted to ned and chav culture' . BBC News. 10 September 2012.
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Finally, a local Governor, a sad and gentle man arrives with a small army unit to bring peace and order. In a bizarre 'happy-ending' the dying Prince Platon pardons everybody, blesses his (soon to be) widow to marry her lover (whom he now greatly admires for having fought the Devochkin's louts heroically); everybody's in tears of compunction, gratitude and joy.
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Urquhart has frequent nightmares and flashbacks of this event, and also of the murders of Mattie Storin and others, shown in the previous series. On a motorway near London, Urquhart's car is rammed by another car containing three drunken louts. The attackers are unlawfully killed by his security staff. Urquhart sustains minor head injuries in the collision, but his life is not endangered.
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Their chief enemy was a counter-group known as C.R.U.S.H. (a spoof on THRUSH but whose acronym was never explained). Although Reggie, Veronica and Moose were initially cast as C.R.U.S.H. agents, they later became members of P.O.P. All the characters also had undefined acronyms for names (A.R.C.H.I.E., B.E.T.T.Y., etc.). R.I.V.E.R.D.A.L.E. stood for Really Impressive Vast Enterprise for Routing Dangerous Adversaries, Louts, Etc.
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Periodic detention, Community-based Sentences in New Zealand, Ministry of Justice website Ralph Hanan the Minister of Justice at the time described it as new sentence which would "provide a useful method of dealing with young louts, vandals and the like who may be headed towards a criminal career if not diverted at an early age".New Zealand Parliamentary Debates, Vol. 331, 1962 p1848.
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"Celebrating the original larrikin"Larrikin Convicts An October 1947 editorial in The Australian Women's Weekly equated larrikinism with vandalism including arson, "They are the people who leave their picnic fires smouldering, and start blazes that deal the final blow to green loveliness", and defacing monuments, "A similar larrikin streak sends louts into city parks to shy stones at monuments and chip noses off statuary".
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This sparked angry demonstrations by local Protestants, and the UDA declared: "Never has Ulster witnessed such licensed sadists and such blatant liars as the 1st Paras. These gun-happy louts must be removed from the streets". A unit of the British Army's Ulster Defence Regiment refused to carry out duties until 1 Para was withdrawn from the Shankill.Wood, Ian S. Crimes of Loyalty: A History of the UDA.
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Daan was born in the Netherlands and started playing the guitar at the age of 9. He played in his first band when he was 12 years old. But the more serious bands came when he was in highschool at the age of 16. Since highschool he played in such band as Mad Bombers (punk rock), the Louts (hardcore), Antro (death metal/nu metal) and Bodybag Society (modern death metal).
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Hoey has been a trustee of the Outward Bound charity since October 2002. A vice- president of the Great Britain Wheelchair Basketball Association, Hoey is a supporter of the women's national team and the work of the charity. In December 2018 she became patron of the Professional Paralegal Register. In October 2013, Hoey was fined £240 for driving through a red light having previously criticised cyclists as "Lycra louts that run red lights".
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224 It was a tremendous success, bringing its author fame, fortune and literary status. Happy though he was with this outcome, Waugh's principal concern as the war ended was the fate of the large populations of Eastern European Catholics, betrayed (as he saw it) into the hands of Stalin's Soviet Union by the Allies. He now saw little difference in morality between the war's combatants and later described it as "a sweaty tug-of-war between teams of indistinguishable louts".Gallagher (ed.), pp.
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Neds (also known as Non-Educated Delinquents, stylised as NEDS) is a 2010 coming-of-age drama film directed and written by Peter Mullan. Set in Scotland, the film centres on John McGill (Conor McCarron), a teenager growing up in 1970s Glasgow. John's story follows his involvement with the city's youth culture and its impact on his development as a teenager. The title is from the word Ned which is a derogatory term applied in Scotland to hooligans, louts or petty criminals.
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In the Plaza de Lavapiés, the locals gossip about the disappearance of Lamparilla while guards keep watch. The barber suddenly appears, claiming that he was only held for smashing up street lamps. Paloma meets La Marquesita and thanks her for the money which was used to bribe the jailer, and the Marquesita tries to get Lamparilla to be part of the plot against Grimaldi. She asks Lamparilla to get some louts to destroy the street lamps and divert the guards' attention.
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The public, > however ... did not really know on the first day where it stood. It heard > many a bravo from unbiased connoisseurs, but obstreperous louts in the > uppermost storey exerted their hired lungs with all their might to deafen > singers and audience alike with their St! and Pst; and consequently opinions > were divided at the end of the piece. Apart from that, it is true that the > first performance was none of the best, owing to the difficulties of the > composition.
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Chalosse is located in the foothills of the Pyrenees, around the valleys of the river Louts and the river Luy, both left tributaries of the river Adour. The region is bounded by the Adour and the Pays de Marsan to the north, the river Gabas and the Tursan to the east and by the region of Béarn to the south. The neighbouring terroirs are L'Orient (west), Pays de Marsan (north), Tursan (east), and Bearn (south). The main town is Dax, to the west of the region.
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As he walked up onto the podium he was applauded by some sections of the audience, described as "young, in t-shirts, aggressively self-confident – the lager louts of our party" in the diary of the Conservative Party chairman of the time, Norman Fowler.Norman Fowler, A Political Suicide (Politico's, 2008), p. 133. Tebbit held aloft a copy of the Treaty and asked the conference a series of questions about the Treaty: did they want to see a single currency or be citizens of a European Union? The audience shouted back "No!" after each question.
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In April 2007 he brokered a deal with Roger Allard's All Leisure Holidays, operator of cruise company Voyages of Discovery, to purchase the brand Swan Hellenic. Together they acquired cruise ship Explorer 2, to be renamed Minerva 1. Swan Hellenic began its new summer season in March 2008 with Lord Sterling remaining as chairman. In October 2010 Sterling hit the headlines by suggesting cruise passengers using his company, Swan Hellenic, at Portsmouth should not mix with "ordinary" ferry passengers who were mostly "semi-lager-louts" or "lorry drivers smelling of BO".
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" Roger Ebert gave the film a positive review, calling it "taut, skillful and surgically effective". Stephen Hunter of The Washington Post criticized Russell for not conveying a desperate husband willing to fight for his missing wife, writing "He does a lot of running around while making desperate faces, but he never projects a sense of deep rage. He never gets dangerous. Thus the movie is shorn of its one primitive gratification: the image of the civilized man who finds the Peruvian commando inside himself and lays waste to louts who have underestimated him.
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"Noises Off Listing" Internet Broadway Database Finneran appeared Off- Broadway at the Laura Pels Theater in the Greg Kotis play Pig Farm, in the original opening cast as Tina. The play opened in June 2006 and ran through September 23, 2006.Isherwood, Charles. "Theater Review. 'Pig Farm' Offers Louts and Buffoons, American Style", The New York Times, June 28, 2006 Finneran appeared in the original cast of Love, Loss, and What I Wore, which opened Off-Broadway at the Westside Theater in September 19, 2009 for a four- week engagement ending on October 18, 2009.
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Authorities first made plans for the Kahrizak detention center in 2001. The center's cells, located underground, were apparently built without free access to fresh air and toilet facilities. With the appointment of Ahmad-Reza Radan to the post of Tehran police chief, the center became a key site for carrying out the "Public Security Plan" targeting drug addicts and so-called "thugs and louts" endangering public morality. Reports of inhumane treatment of the prisoners at Kahrizak were released, with some comparing the conditions there unfavorably to even the notorious political ward 209 of Evin prison.
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The Lurkers toured Germany regularly as a result of Die Toten Hosen championing them with covers of the tracks 'New Guitar in Town' and 'Shadow' The original Lurkers in 1978 were signed to Beggars Banquet, the same recording label as The Louts (a John B Spencer band). Sugarsnatch, a splinter group of Big Boy Tomato, featured Spencer on lead vocals and guitar for the first time. One album 'Mad Cows and Englishmen' was written and released in the space of three weeks, drawing on influences from the trios love of comics. Sugarsnatch only played in the UK twice, concentrating on the European circuit.
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The D946 road comes from Morlanne in the west passing through the length of the commune and the town and continuing east to join the D834 just south of Garlin. The D246 branches off the D946 in the centre of the commune and goes north-west to join the D45 north of Piets-Plasence-Moustrou. The commune is mostly farmland but with many forests mainly towards the west.Google Maps The Louts river passes through the commune from south-east to north-west where it continues north-west to eventually join the Adour on the border of the commune of Préchacq-les-Bains.
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One of the first things they did that day was to attack the Ramsden Arms pub, even though it was the drinking and meeting place for the Rammy Arms Crew. However, a group of Bolton fans unwittingly had come off their train and gone into the Ramsden Arms for a pre- match drink. According to the Blackpool Evening Gazette, “Windows were smashed as louts hurled snooker balls and cues through the expensive lead weighted windows” as they attacked the Bolton fans inside. Blackpool had 100’s out that day and a number of battles took place in and around the ground.
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King Gojong called foreigners "uneducated louts," motivated by "lechery and sensuality." The Joseon Dynasty was widely referred to as a "hermit kingdom" for sealing itself off from foreign influence. Joseon diplomacy mainly involved the Sadae ("serving the great") policy toward Imperial China. Concurrently maintained (and jointly referred to as "serving the great and relations with neighbor policy" ) was the Gyorin policy of amicable relations with neighbouring countries; however this did not result in significant influx of foreign persons but rather sporadic trade delegations and diplomatic missions: envoys from the Ryūkyū Kingdom were received by Taejo of Joseon in 1392, 1394 and 1397.
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"Pollitt, Katha. Subject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture, page 161 (2001): "The question Hill's testimony placed before us was not whether Thomas was guilty of a legally actionable offense (she herself was unsure if his behavior added up to sexual harassment) but whether he belonged on the Supreme Court."Travis, Carol. "Casting Simple Louts as Lawbreakers", St. Petersburg Times (June 11, 1997): "Although Thomas was never accused of illegal behavior – merely of behavior thought unseemly in a Supreme Court nominee – in the public mind the case conflated obnoxious actions with illegal harassment.
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He therefore decided to create and self-publish a full-length Thrud the Barbarian comic as a way to get his new style noticed. A total of five Thrud the Barbarian comics were published: Thrud in issue 1 of the Thrud the Barbarian full-length comic and illustrating Critchlow's developing computer-drawn style #Carborundum Capers – June 2002 #Ice 'n' a Slice – January 2003 #Lava Louts – June 2004 #Thrud Rex! – June 2005 #Bungle in the Jungle – January 2007 Critchlow found that, by organising distribution through comic shops and a devoted Thrud website, he was able to break even financially. His new style was also noticed and received positive comments.
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The poppiest element of the song, and most likely the one that got it to climb the British hit parade, is the insistent, uplifting chorus, which is followed by a typically verging-on- undisciplined, raw bluesy guitar solo. May slightly changes the melody of the verse when he returns after the break, adding a little more urgency to a song that was already plenty propulsive. It was those kinds of little clever attentions to subtleties that belied the Pretty Things' image as crude musical louts, lifting them above most of the standard raw British R&B-derived; rock groups of the mid-'60s in originality.
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As Bill Doolin, Lancaster (who made the film before Atlantic City) is a gent surrounded by louts — a charmer. When he talks to his gang he uses the lithe movements and the rhythmic, courtly delivery that his Crimson Pirate had when he told his boys to gather round. In his scenes with Diane Lane, the child actor who appeared in New York in several of Andrei Serban's stage productions, and who single handedly made the film A Little Romance almost worth seeing, Lancaster has an easy tenderness that is never overdone. Lancaster looks happy in the movie and still looks tough: it's an unbeatable combination.
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Lawyer Kaisa Heller, just promoted, has no apparent emotional attachments, preferring nameless encounters with men. She is surprised to receive a call from Helen, her dying mother, with a final request to bring Kaisa's estranged father Tomas to see her at the hospital. The film is a bit of a road movie with encounters along the way, some confrontational, such as boozing louts who harass her father or angry stewardesses issuing ultimatums, while some are romantic, such as truck driver Clive whom Kaisa attempts to use, but instead finds herself attached to. What started as an unavoidable chore, perhaps the last she will have never been able to dodge, becomes a new starting point in her life.
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In 1880, bushrangers held up the Chinese Camp at Gundagai then fled on horseback towards Burra, a locality known to harbour louts and for the ferocious fires that roar through the area. Early in 1879, some Gundagai residents were in fear that the Ned Kelly gang was going to pay the town a visit and while "extra rifles and ammunition to defend the town" were applied for and special constables were sworn in, the Kelly Gang did turn up in the town. The North Gundagai Anglican cemetery contains the graves of two policemen shot in the district by bushrangers. Senior Constable Webb-Bowen was killed by Captain Moonlite in November 1879 in a hostage incident at McGlede's farm.
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Bilczewski did his best alongside Andrzej Sheptytsky to help mediate and smooth tensions though this did not quite achieve positive results and the two worked with the apostolic nuncio Achille Ratti - future pope - in this regard. He also made several 'ad limina' visits to Rome to visit Leo XIII and Pope Pius X as well as Pope Benedict XV. His help for the poor and the homeless was awarded and the homeless themselves titled him as the "patron of louts" in 1917. From 1918 to 1921 his archdiocese lost 120 priests. During the pogrom against the Jews in Lviv where women and children were abused, men beaten, homes ransacked and property stolen, this was Bilczewski's response.
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In a long monologue Leka opens his heart to Alma about his own family tragedy, i.e. gang-raping and killing of his pregnant Serbian girlfriend by Serbian policemen in Kosova; witnessing the killing of his parents by Serbian soldiers; and his painful experiences as an asylum seeker in the UK. Leka also tells Alma why he shoplifted in London: A few weeks before the arrest he had gone to a pub for a drink. As he did not have enough money, he offered to pay for drinks with a voucher. A racist bartender does not accept the voucher humiliating Leka in front of some drunken louts. As Leka’s confession to Alma is over, Bill and John enter the interview room.
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Crowley was bewildered and concerned by the endeavor, complaining to Germer of being "fairly frantic when I contemplate the idiocy of these louts!" Motivated to find a new partner through occult means, Parsons began to devote his energies to conducting black magic, causing concern among fellow O.T.O. members who believed that it was invoking troublesome spirits into the Parsonage; Jane Wolfe wrote to Crowley that "our own Jack is enamored with Witchcraft, the houmfort, voodoo. From the start he always wanted to evoke something—no matter what, I am inclined to think, as long as he got a result." He told the residents that he was imbuing statues in the house with a magical energy in order to sell them to fellow occultists.
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In a very telling scene in the film that clearly highlighted Miss G's deceptions, Miss G (who claimed to be a world traveller to her "girls") goes to a nearby parochial town to buy some provisions. She is visibly upset by this trip and after buying her provisions and drawing the unwanted attention of some local louts, she returns to the school in, it would seem, a near panic. The bullying culminates in Di physically throwing Fiamma out of the school but, as she is unable to return to Spain as she hoped, Fiamma ends up back at the school later that night. When Fiamma is eventually found, the two girls make the first steps towards friendship, and at the following dorm party they all get a bit drunk, and Fiamma faints.
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The entrance has surul-vyalis (balustrades sculptured with the mythical form of vyalis with twisted trunks). The sanctum sanctorum has a square plan of wide and height of , and at the back wall there are three bas-reliefs, two are of Jain Tirthankaras (as evidenced by the triple umbrellas (chatris) over them) and the third relief is of an acharya (teacher). The ceiling of the garbha-griha which is painted shows a carved wheel with hub and axle that denotes the Dharma-chakra ("Wheel-of-the-Law"). Above the three images in Lotus position (seated posture), paintings are also seen which are surmised to represent a canopy which is carved with carpet designs with striped borders and squares and circles of different sizes with louts flower designs inscribed within the squares.
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The woman's father sent Hotshot on an Impossible Task to find and bring back the Firestone, and the reward was the woman's hand in marriage. Hotshot traveled to the volcano where the Firestone was hidden, but he was captured soon after by the Lava Louts. After a few weeks, he became friends with a jailkeeper named Terrific Al. He asked Terrific Al to bring a half of the ruby heart to his love because she vowed to save him if she received the ruby heart. Terrific Al told Humongous that he would bring the ruby heart to his ladylove if he promised to do something for him and disappeared for fifteen years and came back to tell Humongous Hotshot that his love threw the heart out of the window and married somebody else who had already brought back the Firestone.
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Much rivalry existed for the presidency of the "chief historical discussion club"Rowse, A. L., (1989), Friends and Contemporaries, particularly between the central colleges of the University. Paul Johnson, writing in the Spectator, recalled an episode involving Lord Dacre (Hugh Trevor-Roper): Hugh Trevor-Roper (Lord Dacre) > That term, in 1948, I was due to be elected secretary at the final meeting. > As treasurer, I had noted that a suspicious number of extra subscriptions > had been taken out in the previous fortnight but, not being a conspiracy > theorist, had thought no more of it. However, when I and Karl Leyser arrived > for the meeting, we found it packed with strangers, chiefly red-faced Christ > Church louts, who looked as though they would have been more at home at a > bump-supper or a Bullingdon Club grind.
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The astronomical cost and high prestige of spices, and thereby the reputation of the host, would have been effectively undone if wasted on cheap and poorly handled foods.Scully (1995), pp. 84–86 The common method of grinding and mashing ingredients into pastes and the many potages and sauces has been used as an argument that most adults within the medieval nobility lost their teeth at an early age, and hence were forced to eat nothing but porridge, soup and ground-up meat. The image of nobles gumming their way through multi-course meals of nothing but mush has lived side by side with the contradictory apparition of the "mob of uncouth louts (disguised as noble lords) who, when not actually hurling huge joints of greasy meat at one another across the banquet hall, are engaged in tearing at them with a perfectly healthy complement of incisors, canines, bicuspids and molars".
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Some German officers had considered Communism in the Soviet Union to be a Jewish plot even before the Third Reich. In 1918, Karl von Bothmer, the German Army's plenipotentiary in Moscow called the Bolsheviks "a gang of Jews" and expressed the desire "to see a few hundred of these louts hanging on the Kremlin wall". Evaluations of the Red Army by the visiting Reichswehr officers during the period of German-Soviet co-operation in the 1920s often show anti-Semitism with comments about the "Jewish slyness" of General Lev Snitman or the "Jewish blood" of General Leonid Vajner being very typical. In 1932, Ewald Banse, a leading German professor and a member of the National Association for the Military Sciences (a group secretly financed by the Reichswehr) wrote in a pamphlet calling for "intellectual world domination" by Germany wrote that the Soviet leadership was mostly Jewish who dominated an apathetic and mindless Russian masses.
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In Lebanon he worked as a journalist for the newspaper as-Safir,and other magazines "El Louts the magazine of Afro-Asia Union of Writers" and lived in Beirut through the Israeli siege of 1982, where he worked in Beirut El Mesa'a the magazine of the Communist Workers Organisation which is what eventually forced him to leave Beirut and return to Egypt. He moved to the Netherlands in 1990, To live with his new family after he met the Dutch lady In Cairo, who became the mother of his children and thy married .He settled in Amsterdam, where he has lived and worked since. He has, in his own words, ‘attained a certain amount of fame’ and has been active in the media, contributing to cultural and political debates, such as the consequences of the war in Iraq and taking part in a televised debate on censorship alongside the celebrated Arab poets Mahmoud Darwish and Adunis.
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The last of the 08/15 films ends with Germany occupied by a gang of American soldiers portrayed as bubble-gum chewing, slack-jawed morons and uncultured louts, totally inferior in every respect to the heroic German soldiers shown in the 08/15 films. The only exception is the Jewish American officer, who is shown as both hyper-intelligent and very unscrupulous, which Bartov noted seems to imply that the real tragedy of World War II was the Nazis did not get a chance to exterminate all of the Jews, who have now returned with Germany's defeat to once more exploit the German people. In The Doctor of Stalingrad (1958) dealing with German POWs in the Soviet Union, Germans are portrayed as more civilized, humane and intelligent than the Soviets, who are shown for the most part as Mongol savages who brutalized the German POWs.Bartov, Omer "Celluloid Soldiers: Cinematic Images of the Wehrmacht" pages 130–143 from Russia War, Peace and Diplomacy edited by Ljubica & Mark Erickson, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004 page 137.
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She has that don't touch my makeup! look ... > Now she is rich, famous and perhaps taking herself seriously after being > worked over for one too many magazine covers ... There is, in short, nothing > I liked about "My Life in Ruins," except some of the ruins. Scott Foundas, writing in The Village Voice (June 2, 2009), agreed: > My Life in Ruins Is Nia Vardalos' Strangely Self-Loathing Anti-Comeback: > Substitute "career" for "life" in the title of this stillborn travelogue > comedy, and you'll have a succinct verdict on My Big Fat Greek Wedding > writer/star Nia Vardalos, whose efforts to prove herself more than a one- > megahit wonder have been greeted by audiences with an apathy previously > reserved for the post–Crocodile Dundee oeuvre of Paul Hogan ... the result, > written by The Simpsons alum Mike Reiss and directed (in a manner of > speaking) by Grumpy Old Men's Donald Petrie, is a strangely self-loathing > affair that paints Vardalos's tour group as a uniformly ill-mannered, > culturally illiterate bunch, while rendering Greece itself as a badly > plumbed third-world hellhole run by lazy, Zorba-dancing louts. Lou Lumenick, of the New York Post, also wrote on June 5, 2009: > BEWARE Greek-Canadians bearing comeback vehicles.
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